CEH Contracts in Birmingham

EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for CEH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CEH 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile £616 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £645 £450
% change year-on-year -12.79% +43.33% -18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

CEH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

CEH
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing CEH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for CEH in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CEH in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for CEH in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Akamai
1 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) TestNG
1 2 (33.33%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Web Applications Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CISSP
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) CISA
3 2 (33.33%) CISM
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) GIAC
3 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) GRC
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Imperva